Yury Zaitsev (1951-2022)
September 30, 2022, Dnipro, Ukraine – Olympic champion, World champion and World records holder, legendary Yury Zaitsev passed away at 71. Yury Zaitsev was one of the strongest Soviet heavyweights (110kg) of the 1970s....
September 30, 2022, Dnipro, Ukraine – Olympic champion, World champion and World records holder, legendary Yury Zaitsev passed away at 71. Yury Zaitsev was one of the strongest Soviet heavyweights (110kg) of the 1970s....
Bobby Orr is one of the best hockey players ever to step on the ice rink. OK. There are top three players that are on the top of any all-time top lists out there....
Everybody Loves Balderis Launching a new web site about Helmut Balderis, legendary hockey wizard of the 1970s-1980s. It’s a soft launch of a beta version available for desktops and laptops. Smaller resolution (modile devices)...
During the second half of the 1972 Summit Series, there were several mishaps with the Team Canada luggage arrival to Moscow. History records show that the team never got several items assumed to be...
The whole world was watching when they introduced me. I stepped on the stem and fell flat on my ass. I’ll tell you, that broke some of the tension. But the ironic thing was,...
To be honest with you, I found this quote by Helmut Balderis interesting and rather surprising. In my hockey book, Balderis was the best hockey player of all times and nations. In my view,...
When Team Canada arrived to Moscow for the second half of the 1972 Summit Series, things didn’t look good for Canada at all. They were losing the Series by 1-1-2 and they had to...
Back in 1972, Soviet hockey players trained and played hockey all year around. They were getting one month of vacation and that was about it. For the beginning of a season, they were conditioned...
Jean-Claude Tremblay by Mike Wyman, Inside Hockey (2002) Comments by The Summit in 1972: Were Team Canada players the best in Canada in 1972? Besides injured Bobby Orr, hockey experts often also mention Bobby...
September 6, 2022 – Legendary Olympic champion and coach of Olympic champions, World Champion and coach of World champions, World records breaker and coach of world record breakers, Olympic weightlifting legend Rudolf Plyukfelder turned...